A&S Competitions Was Re: Tournaments
Deborah Sweet
dssweet at okway.okstate.edu
Thu Mar 23 13:31:43 PST 1995
Alessandre writes:
>and I would get rid of Arts and Science Competitions, Displays never,
>Comps make my skin crawl. What do you think? Any suggestions out
>there?
Other than making your skin crawl, are there other reasons you would
get rid of A&S?
I admit that most competitions or displays on the whole don't seem to
be well attended with items (or people looking at them) (at least in
this region) :-), considering just *how*much* A&S stuff is really out
there. I think a lot of people are intimidated by the dreaded
"documentation" requirement (myself included).
Maybe it would be better to have more of a roving contest, whereby the
judges, as they wander around all day doing their other things, take
notice of items in certain categories that really impress them. Several
different methods could be used for either tallying votes/opinions or
handing out "certs of good stuff" on the spot. I would favor something
like this option because it (potentially) recognizes stuff that is
actually being used.
Or in other words not something created specifically *and*only* for an
A&S Competition.:-) (Which I realize is not really the case, but it's
still my first, gut level reaction whenever I see that someone has
*exactly* copied something from this picture in this book. I always
want to ask them after the competition "Well *now* what are you going
to do with it?" :-)
Estrill Swet
Dancemonger
Mooneschadoweshire
stillwater, OK
dssweet at okway.okstate.edu
More information about the Ansteorra
mailing list